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INTERNATIONAL PORT, OFFSHORE, MARITIME, HEAVY INDUSTRIES AND DRY BULK CARGO
Danish biomass ashes fertilise arable land in Poland
Stema Shipping delivers Norwegian granite to Danish roads and constructions
Adventures at Lindø continue... From quiet life to the country's third-largest industrial port
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09 LINDØ port of ODENSE is growing and expanding both in size and strength. There is a good reason for this, because demands for more space, heavier lifts and a future-proof port are made by the tenants who have settled down at the base of Munkebo and by potential, new tenants. In this edition, Discover LINDØ focuses on the port expansion at Lindø.
Stema Shipping has carefully selected LINDØ port of ODENSE for strategic reasons and sees a potential in the large expansion plans of the port. s. 16
LINDØ port of ODENSE is expanding the harbour area by approx. 400,000 square metres which will then match an industrial port in its growth with space for more tenants and with bigger projects in the pipeline.
Agro Trade delivers biomass ash to Poland where the ashes are converting acidic soil into arable land. s. 12
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During these months, six new heated and insulated halls are popping up at Lindø to meet a long-felt wish among existing as well as new tenants. Back
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EDITORS Susanne Willers suwi@lpo.dk
Kystvejen 100 DK-5330 Munkebo
Charlotte Wittenberg cw@lpo.dk
EDITOR IN CHIEF Carsten Aa, Managing Director
Charlotte Nygaard charlotte@mediegruppen.net CIRCULATION 2,000 in Danish 600 in English Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged
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FROM THE EDITOR
Dear Reader,
This being said, what is mentioned above will be possible only because we have good and strong cooperation relations with several hundred companies – both nationally and internationally. The port, and the businesses in the port, carry out missions requested by our clients in dynamic cooperation—and we do everything we can also for international players, with their expectations of simple and accessible project execution, to find Danish ports as attractive as possible. The art is first of all to attract projects for the Danish labour market—and, secondly, that the port best suited of them all will win the project. And the stronger, the more professional and competitive ports we have in Denmark, the more and the bigger projects we can manage. And this brings us back to my starting point; the large expansions at Lindø which are directly derived from concrete demand and well-defined potential. I hope that our growth and development at Lindø will be both surprising and inspiring, so ENJOY YOUR READING!
Carsten Aa Managing Director of LINDØ port of ODENSE A/S
DECEMBER 2017
solutions of logistics often have to be "mirrored" in a receiving harbour, and since 1,200-tonne gantry cranes are rare, ro-ro is often an applicable solution, so this is obviously a setup that Lindø also wishes to offer our tenants and project customers. Development at Lindø is fast, and investments are large and reach far into the future. The long haul involving current investments in order to create and maintain a strong and stable growth is ongoing—a development both for the port and particularly for the companies and employees who have their daily routines at Lindø. Not forgetting all the jobs which locally, regionally and nationally are directly derived from the activities of the port. Actually, we have only just received factual numbers of this; the status is just under 3,000 people employed at Lindø, and if we include derived jobs, i.e. local, regional and national jobs directly associated with Lindø, the figure comes close to 6,500 jobs. And this is, indeed, quite a lot. It also confirms what applies to several of the big ports in Denmark; we are growth generators for local as well as national activities—and our municipal ownership and thereby also the roots in the local communities are both an obligation and a blessing; we GO FOR our local community—and we CAN. We CAN create jobs, we CAN support professional synergies, and we CAN generate long-lasting growth.
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Welcome to Discover LINDØ which this time focuses on the future. Not a distant and undefinable future, but a concrete and relevant time horizon of a mere couple of years, when we shall see how large areas will be taken into use at Lindø—and even more productive companies will participate in the facilities at Lindø, where the Blue Cluster has already gained a foothold. Indeed, this time Discover LINDØ is mainly about ourselves and about some of the clients who will have more space and more opportunities in their future at Lindø. The general theme for this issue is the port expansion to the north. It is not only a natural expansion of our harbour area, it is in fact a small piece of engineering art—or rather a 400,000-square-metre large piece of art. We have been abroad and looked at the facilities of big ports, not least have we taken an interest in how to obtain quays and near-quay areas that are particularly suited to transport of very big and heavy items, and what it takes for quays and quayside infrastructure to ”stand the pace”. Our harbour engineers and consultants have reached a strong and thoroughly prepared setup which will handle even very big mobile and crawler cranes and which is also prepared for ro-ro (wheeled cargo driven on and off the ship). At Lindø, we have a unique setup with a 1,000-tonne – soon 1,200-tonne – gantry crane, whose equal is not found in many other places in Europe, but ro-ro is increasingly being requested, as
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Adventures at Lindø continue... Sand is pumped up from the sea bed and will be part of the port expansion of Terminal North. Anker Boye, Deputy Chairman of the Board of LINDØ port of ODENSE, and Hans Luunbjerg, Mayor of Kerteminde Municipality were interviewed on 9 March 2016 in connection with the start-up of the port expansion.
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Around 400,000 square metres of harbour area expansion at LINDØ port of ODENSE is in keeping with an industrial port in growth with more tenants and large projects in the pipeline. BY: CHARLOTTE NYGAARD
PHOTO: NILS LUND PEDERSEN
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International standards From a relatively anonymous life as a quiet rural district rounded off by a small fishing hamlet with a couple of anchored boats, through the set piece of one of Denmark's largest shipyards, Odense Steel Shipyard, to this day of holding the third-largest commercial port in the country, Lindø presents something of an industrial adventure.
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Every year, the sea nabs a healthy bite of the Danish west coast. On Funen—at Lindø, to be more precise—development takes the exact opposite direction. Here, approximately 400,000 square metres are converted from sea area into port area. The port expansion, which will leave LINDØ port of ODENSE (LPO) with an available space of just under seven million square metres, is an immediate consequence of a commercial port which is growing. New companies are moving into Lindø, projects are growing to a great scale, and interested tenants are waiting in the wing to move into vacant square metres. – It is a fascinating thought that what began as a small yard at a small port in Odense has grown today to a port and commercial area of just under 6.4 million square metres—and we are not even close to reaching our goal. With our coming port expansion of 400,000 square metres and an additional kilometre of quay we are rapidly getting close to reaching a size where we are not only particularly relevant in national terms and for projects in Northern Europe, but we will become one of the production ports in Europe where really big projects in the maritime and offshore industry can be handled, says Carsten Aa, Managing Director of LPO.
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that the total expansion area of approx. 400,000 square metres equals well over 70 football pitches. The port terminal will have one kilometre of new quay, designed for heavy loads and bulk cargo.
Aerial view of LINDØ port of ODENSE anno 2017. The ongoing port expansion and the buffer areas are marked in red.
With its signature gantry crane standing 110 metres into the air, and, in a short while, its just under seven million square metres with a load capacity of up to 40 tonnes per square metre, LPO will match the very heavy industry which includes maritime industry, production of wind turbines and foundations. Welcome to new tenants LPO is far from the only Danish port working on expanding its existing areas. However, where most Danish ports are primarily ports of discharge, Lindø is first of all a port for production of very large structures for the wind turbine and offshore industries and not least a base for ship repairs. With LPO, the strategy for the expansion is therefore targeted to create more space and provide more suitable facilities such as more depth of water for both existing customers and for those customers waiting in the wing.
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“It is an extensive and ambitious port expansion and an exciting challenge— and this will provide entirely new business opportunities for the port's offers within logistics and letting. We have many enquiries that may in future be handled on several locations at Lindø so that our 1,200-tonne gantry crane will not constitute a bottleneck in the future” CHRISTIAN KRUSE TRILLINGSGAARD, HEAD OF TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT, LINDØ PORT OF ODENSE
Just under two million cubic metres of sand and reclaimed material is pumped in to establish the overall area, equal to well over 100,000 lorry loads. If you were to use this material for building a two-metre high embankment, it would run from Skagen to Kolding or from London to Manchester.
As a compensation for that part of Odense Fjord which is converted into harbour area, several nature areas will be established– including wetlands of 100,000 square metres, and two birds' islands will be set up—first and foremost in order to support the bird life around the inlet.
Putting together a gigantic jigsaw puzzle BY: CHARLOTTE NYGAARD
It makes me proud - A project like this does not only trigger my curiosity as an engineer, but it also requires everybody to play together. I find it challenging to be responsible for everybody contributing and working in the right direction, he says and adds: – I look very much forward to the completion of the project. It is a different thing to build a port rather than a building—it is not everything we make that is directly visible, such as extra depth, however, it is designed for very big ships. That makes me proud.
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Niels Kiersgaard is the port engineer with LINDØ port of ODENSE.
All engineering disciplines come into play The expansion at Lindø is so unique that several of the solutions are found nowhere else in Denmark. It has therefore been necessary to obtain inspiration and knowledge from abroad. – We have looked for solutions in the outside world and have also had foreign consultants. It is said that all engineering disciplines exist in harbour construction, because they are unique by nature, and because the path to obtaining all permits and licences is a long and arduous one. All parts of legislation come into play when you work on a port expansion because both
land and sea areas are involved. Add to this, the many different stakeholders–also at the political level, says Niels Kiersgaard. You have to keep your cool and possess the ability to dare take decisions that involve major financial consequences, because a port expansion will take such a long time and therefore needs to accommodate future demands and requirements.
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If you ask harbour engineer Niels Kiersgaard how it feels to be in charge of the most unique and prestigious port expansion on Danish ground, he is close to getting stars in his eyes: – This is a really exciting project where many things have to combine and many different people and fields have to interact in order for the jigsaw puzzle to be completed. This was one of my reasons for accepting the job when it was offered to me, he says.
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Depth of 11 metres. 100 metres of firm pavement. Quay of 660 metres. Quay of 250 metres. Possibility for Jack-up. Flat-level Ro-Ro quay. 30m wide transport road, flat-level with area. Possible building heights according to local planning.
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From quiet life to th third-largest indus In the late 1950s, A.P. Møller, with the relocation of Odense Steel Shipyard, started a development at Lindø which is still ongoing. BY: CHARLOTTE NYGAARD
PHOTO: THE A.P. MOLLER–MAERSK ARCHIVES / CHRISTOFFER & SØN / LPO
Up until the mid-1900s Lindø, at the base of Munkebo, lived a relatively anonymous life, but in the late 1950s, Mr. A.P. Møller's eyes caught the area for his shipyard. Back in 1918, A.P. Møller had started building ships at the port of Odense with his shipyard Odense Steel Shipyard, and after approx. 40 years in Denmark's third-largest city, the space had become too cramped. A.P. Møller converted the tip of Lindø's agricultural land into docks, and over the years, when needed, Odense Steel Shipyard, often referred to as the Lindø Yard, was budding. Shared interest Mr. A.P. Møller was not the only person with an eye for Lindø's geographical location and depth of water. In 1992, the same year that Denmark won her first—and so far only—UEFA European Football Championship, the Port of Odense also established a harbour terminal at Lindø. With its location at Lindø
and 11m depth of water, the Port of Odense would now be able to accept bigger ships with more bulk cargo which was the primary business area of the port. Over the next 17 years, the Port of Odense and the Lindø Yard lived side by side as two independent companies. Thanks for now In 2009, conditions in the Danish ship-building industry were heavily challenged by foreign countries and particularly by Chinese shipyards. In the same year, Fredericia Shipyard decided to move from the port of Fredericia and instead moor with Lindø, with the new name, Fayard. This decision came about partly based on Fredericia municipality's wish to rethink the Port of Fredericia, and partly via discussions with Odense Steel Shipyard to make use of part of the Lindø area. In order not to leave an empty and deserted yard area,
Lindø before Odense Steel Shipyard.
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Prime Minister H.C. Hansen officially inaugurates A.P. Moller's Odense Steel Shipyard at Lindø.
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The building of Dock 3 that can hold ships of up to 650,000 dwt.
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The Port of Odense starts using the Lindø terminal.
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e country's trial port A.P. Moller-Maersk decided to establish Lindø Industrial Park which was to attract growth and jobs to the area in future as a kindly thank you to Funen for the many good years at Lindø. This made room for Fayard, and for LORC to be established at Lindø with a state-of-the-art testing site for wind turbines, and hereby the gates were opened to offshore and wind energy in Lindø Industrial Park. In the following two years, A.P. MollerMaersk operated at Lindø in two divisions– partly to phase out the ship-building activities and partly to establish Lindø Industrial Park with its first two big tenants, Fayard and LORC, as pioneers, but many more companies soon joined in.
with an eye in particular for one big task– the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link. However, as the politicians later decided that the Fehmarn Link would instead be located in Rødby, the Fehmarn cooperation was shelved, while dialogues on all other possible projects continued. In 2014, the Port of Odense, which was a self-governing port owned by the Odense Municipality, purchased Lindø Industrial Park from A.P. Moller-Maersk, and in 2017 the two companies merged into the public limited company port, LINDØ port of ODENSE A/S (LPO), which today, as Denmark's third-largest port, is close to inaugurating an additional approx. 400,000 square metres and approx. one kilometre quay–and more is yet to come ...
Aerial photo of Munkebo town under construction at the end of the 1950s. Photo kindly lent by the A.P. MollerMaersk archives
Aerial photo of the Lindø Yard in 1959. Photo kindly lent by the A.P. Moller-Maersk archives
LPO was born In 2011, the Port of Odense and Lindø Industrial Park launched their cooperation
During the December storm on 3 December the predecessor of the gantry crane tumbled into the CORNELIUS MÆRSK (L170). No-one was hurt.
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Lindø expands the thirdlargest commercial port of Denmark by approx. 400,000 square metres to the north and two additional areas to the south are put into use.
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Odense Steel Shipyard reports the closure of the Yard, and Lindø Industrial Park is initiated.
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Odense Municipality acquires Lindø Industrial Park.
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The grass is always greener: Biomass ash has turned out to be excellent for Poland's arable land which is low on nutrients and has a low pH value. In the upper part of the photo you can see grass crops fertilised with biomass ash and in the lower part the grass crops that have not been fertilised with biomass ash.
AGRO TRADE Agro Trade was founded seven years ago but has worked in practice for only two years as it has taken five years to obtain licences to produce waste-based fertiliser in Poland.
Agro Trade consists of two companies— Agro Trade ApS and Agro Trade Polska. The latter company employs four to five people in Poland and supplies fertiliser to the north-western part of Poland.
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Danish biomass ashes fertilising arable land in Poland
PHOTO: AGRO TRADE
The best precondition for a good business idea is generally that something is missing. This could be a tool for cutting something to perfection, a canister for keeping food cool on the road. Or an environmental and sustainable fertiliser for far too acidic arable land. The latter was the scenario for the start by Agro Trade of biomass ash for Polish arable land which is low on lime and phosphorus. On this background, the company decided to begin production of biomass ash as a fertiliser. Recirculation of nutrients Agro Trade began cooperating with the University of Agriculture in Szczecin in Poland on a field and hothouse test in order to develop an environmentfriendly fertiliser. After several years of field testing, it turned out that biomass ash is really good at raising the pH value of arable land in Poland. – Biomass ash is what is known in everyday speech as bio fly ask. It is important to stress that this is fly ash from bio mass heating plants. That means
heating plants that burn straw or wood chips, etc., says Dorit Rasmussen, who is a chemical engineer with Agro Trade. Strict Polish demands – Fly ashes are the light particles extracted from the smoke and which contain the most nutrients. When we consider the areas of land in Poland that have been fertilised with the fly ashes, the effect is clearly visible, she stresses. Dorit Rasmussen also stresses that this is by no means a matter of trying to export Danish residual waste. – As a matter of fact we also use fly ashes in Denmark. Typically for baffle walls or concrete buildings. And in relation to Poland, their environmental requirements are just as strict as those in Denmark, she states. Processing in Poland Whereas the fly ash in itself is collected from bio mass heating plants all over Denmark and shipped from Lindø, the actual processing into fertiliser is made
Room for growth Every time the fly ash, which is stored in buildings at Lindø, is to be shipped to Poland, Agro Trade has to apply for a permit. And the permit is only for one year at a time. Once every year the company also has to report to the Environmental Protection Agency in Denmark about the location from which the fly ask originates and to which country it is exported. – We ship only from Lindø. This is a central location for us and the many heating plants on Funen from which we get the fly ash, but also for the heating plants on Sealand that contribute with biomass ash. We have a very fine cooperation with LINDØ port of ODENSE and always experience flexibility and solution readiness. In addition, we have plenty of room for our activities–also in future with the expansions on the port. This leaves us room to grow, she says.
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at factories in Poland which have been built through Agro Trade. – It has been a long and arduous battle to get the permit in Poland and obtain the licence. Our products have been analysed by five different bodies and the licence we have obtained is exclusively for the actual product. If we make only a slight change to the composition, we have to obtain a new licence, she says.
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Agro Trade spotted a niche business in residue from biomass heating plants and is converting acidic soil into arable land in Poland. Today, the company is using LINDØ port of ODENSE as its permanent base for the fly ash, and the expansion plans in the port are followed with great interest.
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Use of spare areas LINDĂ˜ port of ODENSE (LPO) disposes of approx. two million square metres of spare area in the southern part of the port area. Presently, the industrial port is converting part of the spare area (approx.700,000 square metres) into the same level and load capacity as the other project areas of the industrial port. In actual fact, the arable land towards the south needs to be filled by 2.5 metres to level it with the rest of LPO. This requires more than one million cubic metres of soil or what equals well over 1.3 million tonnes of soil.
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The original plan was that the conversion to the same level as the rest of LPO should be made by sand from the Kattegat. However, when the construction of Facebook's data centre in Odense began, LPO managed to become one of two users of the soil dug out for the large data centre building site. Just under half of the 1.3 million tonnes of soil for the expansion originates from the excavation for Facebook's data centre. The rest of the soil comes from other construction sites on Funen and in the
Triangle Region at Kolding, Fredericia and Vejle. The area is topped by an additional one million cubic metres of carrying materials and the wearing course will be granite aggregate. Once the spare area has been converted into level with the rest of LPO, the area will be able to carry loads from 15 to 40 tonnes per square metre.
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One of Bladt's jackets will be erected by the gantry crane at Lindø. The load is 650 tonnes.
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In the course of 2017, LINDØ port of ODENSE's (LPO) gantry crane will be upgraded to lift a total of 1,200 tonnes as against the present 1,000 tonnes. The background is an increasing demand particularly from Bladt Industries, which are housed at LPO, for lifting heavy loads, especially jackets for the wind turbine industry. Today, the gantry crane can lift a total of 1,000 tonnes, and each main hoist can lift 300 tonnes to a lifting height of 75 metres. With the upgrade, the gantry crane will be able to lift a total of 1,200 tonnes, and the individual hoists will lift 330 tonnes to a lifting height of 79 metres. Once the upgrade is completed, the crane will be test loaded with 1,320 tonnes and the individual hoists with 363 tonnes, which is equal to WLL (work load limit) plus 10 per cent.
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Upgrading the gantry crane
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Stema Shipping delivers Norwegian granite to Danish roads and constructions The company has carefully selected LINDØ port of ODENSE for strategic reasons and sees a potential in the large expansion plans of the port. BY: CHARLOTTE NYGAARD
PHOTO: STEMA SHIPPING
Stema Shipping's vessels are constantly on the move and do not spend much time alongside in order to unload aggregates.
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Every time a house, a data centre, a super-size hospital or a highway needs to be built, it requires sand, gravel and stone. Resources which are being more and more depleted in Denmark—and on Funen in particular. Stema Shipping with its headquarters in Aabenraa has specialised in extracting granite aggregate from its own quarries in Norway, which is delivered all over Europe particularly for the construction industry. In this great game between Norway to the north and Italy to the south, LINDØ port of ODENSE plays a fairly significant role for the company.
Stema Shipping operates its own quarries in Norway and has an annual production capacity of approx. 15 million tonnes of granite aggregates and employs approx. 250 people. The aggregates are produced in all sizes for the building and construction market for concrete, asphalt, railways, coastal and harbour constructions, plants, etc. The aggregates are carried by the company's own fleet consisting of six selfunloaders, each carrying around 30,000 tonnes, and a minor fleet of small self-unloaders in sizes of 4,000-10,000 tonnes per ship.
“We build a relationship of trust with our cooperation partners and in this respect, Lindø is a good cooperation partner for us.” ROLF BONNICHSEN, MANAGING DIRECTOR, STEMA SHIPPING
Stema Shipping continuously extracts granite from the Norwegian quarries for use in roads and constructions in Denmark.
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Gravel pits on the port – Our production is constant, but given that our clients are extensively working in building and construction, we are challenged by cyclic variations in that line. This applies to simple seasonal variations with increased activities during the summer season in relation to the winter season. However, it also applies to the more lengthy fluctuations such as rises and falls for the building trade in general, says Rolf Bonnichsen, Managing Director of Stema Shipping. Therefore the company needs ”gravel pits” in the ports. Stema Shipping has approx.
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One of the Norwegian quarries from which Stema Shipping extracts granite aggregates to be used at Facebook's building site in Odense as well as for new roads on Funen.
50 of those distributed along the entire coastline of Europe. – In this way, we are always guaranteed a flow in our deliveries. Our ships do not spend much time alongside, but are constantly on the move, he says. Not a one-day customer In addition to Lindø, Stema Shipping has raw material terminals in Denmark in the ports of Aarhus, Copenhagen and Aabenraa as well as a minor division at the port of Vejle. However, with its 11-metre depth of water, Lindø is very suitable to Stema Shipping's ships of 33,500 dwt which require a depth of just 11 metres. – We are not a one-day customer. We build a relationship of trust with our cooperation partners and in this respect, Lindø is a good cooperation partner for us. Stema Shipping and LINDØ port of ODENSE have a common strategy for what we do and thereby a common interest in cooperating, Rolf Bonnichsen stresses.
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Cooperating with Gemidan By choosing Lindø at the entrance to the Great Belt, Stema Shipping has also got a fine cooperation partner in the contractor and engineering business Gemidan which assists Stema Shipping in handling the aggregates. Precisely in these years, Funen is an even better strategic choice for Stema Shipping that supplies aggregates to both Project Four, which will eventually result in Facebook's data centre, and other major construction sites and infrastructural expansions in the area. – From time to time we have busy periods with some of the jobs where we are suppliers. Busy periods which require coordination and adaptations, but whatever the extent of the problem, we always manage to solve it here at Lindø in cooperation with the port, says Rolf Bonnichsen.
Stema Shipping The ships have an unloading capacity of 2,500-3,000 tonnes per hour and with a boom length of 75 metres they do not require any dock workers or other assistance from shore during unloading. LINDØ port of ODENSE together with Aarhus, Aabenraa and Copenhagen are Stema Shipping's Danish aggregate terminals. In addition, there are around 50 harbour terminals all over Europe, each capable of storing approx. 2-3 million tonnes.
NEWS
Proposal for common nordic maritime arbitration Today, a vast majority of maritime arbitration disputes end up in New York or London, but according to Danish Shipping a new Nordic cooperation will establish an independent Nordic maritime arbitration institute. The Nordic initiative is relevant not least in relation to Brexit. Besides, Danish and Nordic shipping companies will save a substantial sum of money in relation to the disputes that are taken in London, with expensive legal advisors and heavy and complex procedural rules.
This spring, Danish Shipping brought the Danish rules on fuel for dredgers to the implementation council of the Danish government for a so-called neighbour check. The check among our Swedish and German neighbours has subsequently very clearly proved that Denmark is the only country that has interpreted the EU energy taxation directive in such a way that Danish dredging companies are required to pay taxes on that part of the fuel that is used for sucking the sand. Thereby Danish companies are more heavily burdened than their neighbours. This is in direct contrast to the Government's principles that "Danish companies should not be put in an inferior position in international competition, and therefore the implementation should not be more burdensome than the anticipated implementation in comparable EU countries.”
Need for international regulation on autonomous ships Development in autonomous ships is going faster than it was first assumed. This is the main message in a report from Lloyd’s Register, Danish Shipping states. As early as within the next couple of years the first ships may be launched. Before this happens, the report recommends the introduction of international regulation in the area of autonomous ships. In that way, we can avoid independent national regulation which may be difficult to enforce internationally if such regulations are not unified. A recommendation which Danish Shipping is supporting.
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Danish shipping companies are capable of maintaining employment and increasing productivity despite difficult market conditions globally. This is stated by Danish Shipping on the background of a new report by the Economic Council of the Labour Movement prepared for the Danish Maritime Authority. The report also shows that the financial crisis has finally relaxed its grip on shipping which is back on track with productivity increases above average in relation to the overall Danish economy. The report also concludes that shipping companies all in all maintain employment and increase exports.
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SHIPPING KEEPING IN SHAPE
DENMARK IS OVER-IMPLEMENTING FUEL RULES
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Lindø's delicacies delivered by Leo Leo Møller runs Lindø's canteen that has a daily custom of approx. 600 people from early morning till night. BY: CHARLOTTE NYGAARD
A flat organisation, flexible, skilled employees and good working conditions. These are roughly the secret ingredients of success in Lindø's canteen. Every single day, the canteen staff of 12 deliver an average of 600 settings to keep Lindø's many employees satiated— whether they start before dawn and need to be served breakfast, whether they require lunch, or whether they work evening and night. Lindø's canteen caters for all hands. Head of the kitchen is chef Leo Møller, who was chef at Fayard for 18 years—and is now the chef for all of Lindø. A South Jutlander, born and bred – I came along from Fredericia when Fayard was Fredericia Shipyard, and I still have an employee in the kitchen from our days in Fredericia, says the 47-year-old chef who was an apprentice at Mikkelsborg Inn in Southern Jutland. The chef is indeed a born and bred South Jutlander. Today, he lives a mere two kilometres from his native town, and his wife has been Leo's sweetheart since they were both 14. Leo commutes 240 km every single day, and that suits him fine. – I arrive every day at 5.30 am and usually leave around 2 pm. However, the Canteen is operating every day from 6.30 am till 7 pm, he states.
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Flexible shifts Even though Leo is the boss in the kitchen, he may also be peeling carrots or washing the floor in the cold store. Lindø's canteen indeed has a flat organisation, and everybody sets about their job—regardless of its nature. – This is a special workplace, because only during the morning will we learn how many will need to be served in the evening and night. And for the weekends we only know on Friday morning how many will need to be served. This calls for a flexible staff because a shift may easily change during the week, and we are fortunate to have just such a staff, says Leo Møller smiling. It is possible because in return we provide a good workplace and a reasonable pay—and we do a little extra for the staff from time to time. All the staff are employed by Fayard who is leasing the shared canteen at Lindø. Shopping locally – We make all the food from scratch and always from fresh ingredients. We have our own bakery with our own baker, and whenever possible we do our shopping locally, says Leo Møller. This means that the local butcher, Morten in Kerteminde, is a supplier of meat for Lindø's canteen. And whenever
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20 If carrots go into a course, 20 kg of hand-peeled carrots are used.
550 On a daily basis, Lindø's canteen hands out 550 pieces of fruit to four different companies at Lindø.
365 All year round, Lindø's canteen supplies provisions to the Lindø Conference Centre that has several weekly events.
Leo Møller's recipe for Riz à la mande for 500 people Each year in December, Leo and his staff get the Christmas spirit going at Lindø with Leo's homemade Riz à la mande—the much favoured Danish rice dessert for Christmas. Each day of December, the cold Christmas dish is a regular part of the lunch buffet. Here is the recipe intended for 500 people. You may scale down the recipe to a more family-friendly size (say, 6 people). Bon appétit!
50 litres of low-fat or whole milk to your own liking (0.6 l for 6 people) 20 kg of pudding rice (25 gr of pudding rice for 6 people) 20 litres of double cream (2.5 dl of double cream for 6 people) 2 kg of sugar (6 gr sugar for 6 people) 200-300 gr of vanilla sugar (2.5-3.6 gr of vanilla sugar for 6 people)
Favours unpredictability – Personally I am happy with the work, because no two days are the same. However, I would never fancy working in a canteen where I would have to cook for precisely 81 people each and every day, he says. The unpredictability of not knowing the number of guests and the various
meals divided into everything from a full breakfast buffet, a lunch buffet with open Danish sandwiches, salad buffet, fruit, cold buttermilk soup and two hot dishes–and of course our own freshly baked bread–to the evening buffet and lunch packets and sandwiches for the night shift, all this ensures an exciting and varied job.
Tips for Leo's Danish Christmas rice dessert: Do not boil milk and rice too much. Prepare the rice pudding a day in advance so that it is cold and ready. Don't forget to sprinkle sugar over the pudding before leaving it to cool. This prevents a skin on the pudding from forming.
DECEMBER 2017
the canteen's own baker takes the weekend off, the local bakery in Kerteminde takes over and delivers bread.
Comes with 40 litres of cherry sauce (Half a litre of cherry sauce for 6 people).
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Leo Møller began 18 years ago as a chef at Fredericia Shipyard and came along to LINDØ port of ODENSE.
2 drops of almond extract, which is a recommendation of the South-Jutlander. (A pinch of almond extract for 6 people)
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NEWS FROM LPO
New employees Since the spring of 2017, LPO has welcomed 10 new employees:
Engineer Onyema Umegboro on 1 May
Head of Technical Department Christian Kruse Trillingsgaard on 23 May
Maintenance Engineer Anders Møller Larsen on 26 May
Semi-skilled worker Kim Erik Jensen on 3 July
Semi-skilled worker Kenneth M. Rasmussen on 1 August
Semi-skilled worker René Hansen on 15 August
Semi-skilled worker Rasmus Lind Lange on 1 September
Semi-skilled worker Sten K. Jensen on 1 September
Semi-skilled worker Per Hansen on 1 September
Semi-skilled worker Søren Esbensen on 1 September
New companies
Trainees LPO continually has engineer trainees in the technical division. For the moment, these trainees are at Lindø:
SensorSurvey (land and marine survey)
Constructing architect trainee Jesper Storm Frederiksen
Engineer trainee Kenneth S. Andresen Lindoe Component and Structure Testing A/S (full-scale testing of components and systems)
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LINDØ port of ODENSE
Engineer trainee Marc Jacobsen
Visits to Lindø 3 September 2017
9 October 2017
11 October 2017
LORC, the wind turbine test centre, and MHI Vestas Offshore Wind at Lindø were visited by Mr. Lars Chr. Lilleholt, Minister for Energy, Utilities and Climate, together with Mr. H.E. Nur Bekri, Chinese Minister for Energy.
Visit by the Disruption Council headed by Troels Lund Poulsen, Minister for Employment, and representatives of DA (the Confederation of Danish Employers) and LO (the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions).
Café Stiften visited Lindø—100 participants on a tour followed by interview of Carsten Aa, Managing Director. Café Stiften is arranged by the Fyens Stiftstidende newspaper.
From left: Torben Lorentzen (Managing Director of LORC), Carsten Aa (Managing Director of LINDØ port of ODENSE), Lars Chr. Lilleholt, Minister for Energy, Utilities and Climate, H.E. Nur Bekri, Chinese Minister for Energy, Yang Kebao (President of Vestas China), Morten Dyrholm, Group Senior Vice President, Global Marketing, Communications and Public Affairs (Vestas Wind Systems A/S), and William Lim, Senior Project Manager, CEO Office and Corporate Strategy (Vestas Wind Systems A/S)
Carsten Aa, Managing Director, welcomes Troels Lund Poulsen, the Minister for Employment.
Jørgen Volmer, Managing Editor of Fyens Stiftstidende asked questions about the future for Lindø.
From left: Peter Bohlbro, Committee Secretary, Leif Lahn Jensen (S), Jan Johansen (S), Torsten Gejl (ALT), Lennart Damsbo-Andersen (S), Jens Henrik Thulesen Dahl (DF), Karsten Hønge (SF), Finn Sørensen (EL), Bent Bøgsted (chairman of DF) and Carsten Aa (LINDØ port of ODENSE)
DECEMBER 2017
Representatives of the Danish Parliament Employment Committee and the Ministry of Employment visited Lindø, where Carsten Aa, Managing Director, hosted the lunch with a subsequent tour of MHI Vestas Offshore Wind and Bladt Industries.
The forklift truck company, A/S N. P. Trucks, a Lindø tenant, celebrated its 50th anniversary on 1st June 2017. The family business, which today has approx. 100 employees, was founded in 1967, but the forerunner saw the light of day as early as in 1945 under the name of N. P. Nielsens Maskinfabrik. Since 2006, the cousins Casper Nielsen and Chris Nielsen have been at the helm of the firm. Their great-grandfather, Niels Peter Nielsen, founded the machine shop in 1945, and his son, Hans Børge Nielsen, took over production in 1955. He was known by the name of ”Ice Hans”, because he made ice for freezer and industrial clients. He needed a forklift truck in his factory and that was the beginning of trading in forklift trucks. Together with his son, Ole Nielsen, he set up N. P. Trucks in Horsens in 1967. Ole Nielsen took over and operated the business together with his brother, Egon Nielsen, until 2006.
A/S N. P. Trucks has provided trucks and transport equipment for 50 years. From left; Chris Nielsen, owner and Sales Manager, and Jens Munk Jensen, Managing Director.
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20 September 2017
50th anniversary
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Six new halls emerging at Lindø Presently, the port is in the process of building six new halls which will all be insulated and heated and in sizes of approx. 260 to 500 square metres. The halls will be strategically and centrally located–right next to the traffic thoroughfare between the northern and the southern parts of Lindø. All of the halls will be prepared for 10-tonne cranes and will be pillarless and have office, kitchenette, toilet facilities and technical room. The gates will measure 5 x 7 metres and are thereby suitable for lorries.
Carsten Aa, Managing Director of LINDØ port of ODENSE, and Michael Mølgaard, Project Manager of Dansk Halbyggeri, at the topping-out ceremony for the six new halls.